Tuesday, October 15, 2013

For years, Mitch Fortune and Jake Crouch have been prevented from
getting married by laws making same-sex marriage illegal in North
Carolina.

So when they heard the county's top record-keeper was
going to accept same-sex marriage license requests Tuesday, they headed
to his office. With his action, Buncombe County Register of Deeds Drew
Reisinger became one of the first officials in the South to take such
applications from same-sex couples.

"This is a big step," said Crouch, 29, a climatologist who works for the federal government.
Thirty-four-year-old Fortune agreed, adding that they
had been discussing marriage for much of their 7-year relationship. They
bought a house together in Asheville three years ago.

"I'd like to see this happen soon," he said.

Reisinger accepted marriage license requests from 10
same-sex couples on Tuesday, despite a 2012 amendment to the state
constitution forbidding such marriages.

Reisinger said he will hold the licenses and ask state
Attorney General Roy Cooper for legal advice. Reisinger said he believes
the state's ban is unconstitutional.

North Carolina has
become the first state to cut off welfare benefits to poor residents in
the wake of the partial federal government shutdown, ordering a halt to
processing November applications until a deal is reached to end the
federal standstill.

Photos: The showcase plot is filled with unharvested vegetables and weeds, and wildlife running amok...Washington, DC -The first government shutdown in seventeen years has had a dramatic impact on First Lady Michelle Obama's world-famous Kitchen Garden on the South Lawn, currently bursting with more than thirty kinds
of vegetables, including Presidential pumpkins awaiting
harvest just in time for Halloween. (Above, Mrs. Obama in the garden in happier days)In
the eleven days since the shutdown began on Oct. 1, the pounds and
pounds of ripe organic bounty have gone to waste. The vegetables
filling the 1,500 square-foot plot are now rotting away on the vines and
in the boxed beds, thanks to the mandate for "minimal maintenance"
placed on the skeletal crew of National Park Service gardeners who remain on duty at 1600 Penn.

Recently, we got the most amazing note, from a photographer named Matt Rubel,
with a link to some pictures from an unusual memorial to a young farmer
in Illinois. We asked Matt for the right to publish his photos and for
an explanation of the event, pasted below.

My mother’s family is from a small farming community near
Champaign, Illinois. Though I grew up a Navy kid and lived all over the
world, I always loved coming to the farm. As a child, I was fascinated
by my grandfather’s tractors and farm equipment. If my brother and I
were lucky, we would catch Grandpa early enough during the harvest or
planting season and be allowed to ride in the tractor. They’ve always
been a very tangible symbol of farming to me.

WASHINGTON,
D.C.
-
I
do not need
to
tell
you
that
the
Obama
administration
is
doing
everything
it
can
to
take
away
our
Second
Amendment
rights.
You
may
have
heard
that
the
president
recently
signed
the
United
Nations
(UN)
Arms
Trade
Treaty,
which
would
seriously
impact
the
right
to
own
a
gun
in
the
United
States.
This
UN
treaty
does
not
recognize
the
individual
right
to
own
and
operate
a
gun,
paves
the
way
for
a
national
gun
registry,
and
opens
the
door
to
additional
gun
sale
regulations.
By
signing
it,
the
president
has
set
a
dangerous
precedent
for
our
nation.

In
response
to
President
Obama's
troubling
action,
today
I
joined
179
of
my
colleagues
from
both
parties
in
the
House
of
Representatives
in
signing
a letter
stating
that
we
will
stand
with
the
Senate
in
opposition
to
ratifying
this
treaty.
Furthermore,
we
will
refuse
to
pass
any
legislation
that
would
allow
implementation
or
funding
for
the
terms
of
the
treaty.

President
Obama's
administration
has
an
unfortunate
history
of
violating
the
constitutional
rights
of
American
citizens,
and
this
is
no
exception.
His
assault
on
the
Second
Amendment
is
unacceptable.
Please
know
that
I
will
continue
my
efforts
in
defense
of
your
right
to
own
and
operate
a
gun
in
Eastern
North
Carolina.

Walter Jones

Thank
you
for
taking
the
time
to
read
about
some
of
my
work
for
the
Third
District.
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web
site.

Holcombe is
urging Morrisville town staff to review the new law, which went into
effect Oct. 1, to see if there is room to restrict guns near children in
public areas. The council is expected to vote on the revisions Oct. 22.

“I wanted staff to see if there are any options at all,” Holcombe said.

Under
the state law, guns aren’t allowed during specific times such as
cricket-league practices and soccer practices, she said. “But there is
no similar option for parents who would like to use our playgrounds,”
Holcombe said.

Billionaire George Soros is a primary donor to the so-called immigrant-rights organization that has been blocking buses and carrying out other civil disobedience to block the deportation of illegal aliens, WND has learned.

On Friday, the National Day Laborers Organizing Network, or NDLON, carried out civil disobedience for hours in Tucson, Ariz. The protesters formed human circles around buses and even chained themselves to vehicles attempting to transport illegal aliens to the courthouse for processing.

Activists also reportedly blocked the entrance to the courthouse.

The protests reportedly prompted a federal court to shut down its deportation process known as Operation Streamline for the day. Operation Streamline is a Bush-era program that allows judges to review multiple cases at the same time to expedite the deportation of illegal aliens.

After the Obama administration, for the second Sunday in a row, continued to prohibit approximately 50 Catholic priests from saying Mass and administering other sacraments at U.S. military facilities around the world, Father Ray Leonard, who serves as the Catholic chaplain at Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay in Georgia, has filed suit against the Department of Defense, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, the Department of the Navy, and Navy Secretary Ray Mabus.

A
primary cause of secession was constant and irresponsible agitation by
fanatical abolitionists who fomented slave rebellion. A last straw for
the South was the realization that prominent Northern leaders and
Republican politicians had supplied John Brown with money and weapons as
well as legal support after his capture. Not forthcoming from the
abolitionists was a reasonable, peaceful and sincere solution to African
slavery in this country.

“The
Harpers Ferry affair proves to be more serious than at first it
appeared to be -- not in reference to the Negro population, for that had
nothing to do with it; but in reference to the hostility of large
numbers of men of all classes in the free States to the slaveholding
States, even unto blood, and their readiness to aid and abet such
attempts with counsels and money, and to employ reckless agents to carry
them out.

There
is a covert, cowardly, assassin-like heart in these men. Why do they
not arm and come to the field in open day? From the tone of the
abolition press in the free States, both secular and religious, there is
great sympathy for the prisoners at Harpers Ferry. Some go so far as to
justify the act, and only condemn the time and manner of it! The whole
abolition crusade which has been preached for thirty years ends in the
sword. The volunteering of counsel for the prisoners from the free
States is another proof of sympathy in their crime, and an insult to the
justice of the South.

Some
of the papers friendly to the South hope that the South will be
forbearing and magnanimous! Against the miserable lives of these men who
have plotted arson, robbery, murder and treason over a vast portion of
our country, who may weigh millions of property, millions of lives, the
virtue, the order, the peace and happiness of our people, the majesty of
the laws, the sacredness of religion, our constitution and our Union?

There
is no place left for forbearance---no ground for compromises. The
magnanimity of the South must not be exercised towards public criminals
of the deepest dye, but towards herself in all her greatest and best
interests, and towards our common country. Such sparks like these,
struck to produce a universal conflagration, should be stamped out
immediately. Such enemies should be met and overwhelmed without quarter
in a moment.

If
the conservative and loyal men of the free States, who we believe do
now possess the power, are willing and ready to rule down this spirit of
treasonable and violent aggression upon an unoffending and invaluable
section of our country, we shall be most happy to see them do it.”

(The Children of Pride, Robert Manson Myers, editor, Yale University Press, 1974, pp. 525-526)

The Equus Bass 770 has gone viral, and it's not hard to see why. The
retro styling of the boutique modern muscle car draws inspiration mainly
from the old Ford Mustang fastback, but also the Dodge Challenger,
and it's powered by a thoroughly modern supercharged 6.2-liter V8 that
makes 640 horsepower, a la Chevrolet's recently departed Corvette ZR1.

It all comes together to give the Bass 770 a claimed 0-60
miles-per-hour time of 3.4 seconds and top speed of 200 mph, which makes
us wonder why it took a short piece by Thrillist that ended up on the front page of Reddit to make people notice (including us). Apparently, the thing already has been out for almost a year, according to Equus Automotive's Facebook page.

A Keystone resident is stripped of his carry permit and firearm,
detained and issued a city citation for possession of cutting weapons on
a highway.

“The officer did not have the legal right to confiscate my
firearm. He also had no grounds to revoke my license to carry
firearms,” said Edward Yealey, a professional audio engineer and
production manager.

Yealey said Oct. 8 at or around 11:30 a.m., he was standing outside a
diner owned by a friend on Philadelphia’s East York Street, when he was
approached by a city police officer concerning the .45 caliber Glock 30
he was open carrying.

“Instantly I turned the camera on, I had my arms crossed, so the
phone is up in a good location. I don’t think he noticed it at first,”
he said.

Veterans have rallied against the federal government’s actions in Washington several times lately, including over the weekend when they carried barricades – some called them “barrycades” – over to the White House lawn where they dumped them.

So have bikers.

So have truckers.

But now, according to a report in the Army Times, a group representing about 5.5 million Americans – service members, veterans, retirees and their families – will be rallying on Tuesday.

It will happen, again, at the World War II Memorial, where members of Congress in recent days have helped take down barricades erected by the National Park Service to keep military veterans away from the open-air memorial that is in their honor.

The Army Times report said the rally will be “aimed at embarrassing Congress and the White House into action.”

It cites plans by the Military Coalition, which includes 33 different military and veterans organizations, to have a rally and news conference to call on Congress and the White House to make the decisions needed to get the government going.

Americans who want to honor and reflect upon the memory of the crew and passengers who perished aboard United Flight 93 on Sept. 11, 2001 will find that the federal government has blocked the road four miles down from the open-air memorial near Shanksville, Pa.

CNSNews.com photographed the spot of the road closure this past weekend. The steel barrier blocking vehicles from passing says: “Because of the federal government shutdown, this National Park Service facility is closed.”

In Japanese, pronounced "foo-koo-pii", unfortunately the english-speaking world may not see it that way... Does it not feel a little like the governments of the US and Japan are now openly mocking its people? Perhaps this should become the new mascot for Washington DC?

While many Americans have simply accepted such crimes as a sad fact
of life in states such as Texas or Arizona, most would likely be
surprised to discover the mounting death toll in North Carolina, a state
far removed from the Mexican border.

Unfortunately, due to our federal government's unwillingness to actually secure the border and fully enforce our current immigration laws, the state of North Carolina has been transformed into a border state.

What follows is the list of those who have been killed in North Carolina by illegal aliens since 2003.

The owner of a woodlot near Grand Falls N.B. told the CBC he’s lucky to be alive after a bear attacked him in the forest.

Gilles Cyr was out for a walk through his woodlot when suddenly a
large black object ran out of the woods and attacked him. To prevent the
bear from killing him, Cyr grabbed its tongue in a desperate bid for
survival.

“When I opened up my eyes it was on top of me – with the friggin’
noise, it’s crazy the way it growls.
Right from the stomach. It’s not
from the mouth, it’s just inside. His mouth was wide open right in front
of my face so the last thing I remember I had his tongue in my hand and
I didn’t want to let go because he was trying to fight me off. So he
was hitting me with his claws, so I says, ‘If you’re going to hurt me,
I’m going to hurt you too.’ So he was biting his tongue at the same
time,” said Cyr.

Once again, we honor those who served their country, and world, seventy years ago

For the first time since the Tea Party element realized that
something was seriously wrong in government, thereby becoming a part of
the patriot/constitutionalist community, people were seen on the streets
carrying something other than signs. Though not quite on the level of
rifles, or pitchforks, the idea that barricades could be returned to the
White House, in protest of the childish actions of the Executive Branch
of government, begins to show an advanced form of resistance to the
misdeeds and shenanigans of government.

Remembrance

To die for one’s country is not only an act of bravery, it is THE act of bravery. For soldiers, it is just an extension of their military career, a part of their duty. As leaders have asked their soldiers to sacrifice themselves for the good of the society, it is only right for leaders to go through the same motion. They should practice what they have preached.

As war is seen as a noble act, tu sat serves as redemption in case of defeat. It is also a way to tell the enemy: “You might have won the battle/war but you don’t deserve to win because you don’t have the chinh nghia (just cause).” And it is not only just cause: it is the moral belief that the cause they are fighting for deserves their total sacrifice. Continues below

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.